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Classic Slum Presents
THE LAUNCH OF THE RISE, THE FALL AND THE RISE BY BRIX SMITH-START
FEATURING BRIX IN CONVERSATION + BRIX AND THE EXTRICATED (FULL LIVE SET)
Doors 7pm / 18+
The unmissable memoir from the Fall guitarist and fashion expert.
The Rise, The Fall, and The Rise is the extraordinary story, in her own words, of Brix Smith Start. Best known for her work in The Fall at the time when they were perhaps the most powerful and influential anti-authoritarian postpunk band in the world -- This Nation's Saving Grace, The Wonderful and Frightening World Of ... -- Brix spent ten years in the band before a violent disintegration led to her exit and the end of her marriage with Mark E Smith.
But Brix's story is much more than rock'n'roll highs and lows in one of the most radically dysfunctional bands around. Growing up in the Hollywood Hills in the '60s in a dilapidated pink mansion her life has taken her from luxury to destitution, from the cover of the NME to waitressing in California, via the industrial wasteland of Manchester in the 1980s.
What emerges is a story of constant reinvention, jubilant highs and depressive ebbs; a singular journey of a teenage American girl on a collision course with English radicalism on her way to mid-life success on TV and in fashion.
Too bizarre, extreme and unlikely to exist in the pages of fiction, The Rise, The Fall, and The Rise could only exist in the pages of a memoir.
Brix Smith Start is a songwriter and guitarist best known for her work with The Fall and The Adult Net. In recent years she has worked as a tv presenter and in fashion as the owner of a string of boutiques with her husband, Philip Start.
Brix & The Extricated feature original Fall vixen Brix Smith-Start on guitar and vocals, powerhouse duo Steve Hanley on bass and brother Paul Hanley on drums ('The greatest rhythm section in rock n roll' - Luke Haines), Steve Trafford on guitar and vocals, and virtuoso Jason Brown on guitar, this is a dream line up for lovers of The Fall sound.
FEATURING BRIX IN CONVERSATION WITH ABIGAL WARD (MANCHESTER DISTRICT MUSIC ARCHIVE)
